More information : [Early accounts confuse the site of the Greyfriars with that of the Whitefriars. Traditionally they have been exchanged with each other. To avoid confusion, the text of sources 1-8 has been ommitted, but may be consulted in the OS Card Index at the NMRC]
TF 036075. Early historians have confused this site with that of the Whitefriars (see TF OO NW/14). All antiquarian writers from Peck's time have placed the site in the area between St. Leonard's Street and St. Paul's Street, just outside the east wall of the town. However, Speed does not record the Greyfriars in this traditionally accepted site. Moreover, in 1595 the site of the Greyfriars was listed as being in the parish of St. Paul (a), and such a location may account for the house being described later as`the Grey or Farr Friars', in apposition to the nearer house of `the White or Little Friars'(b). Furthermore, Howgrave, writing the year before Peck, stated that the Greyfriary was seated a little way out of Stamford, on the east side of it, and north of St. Leonard's.
There can be little doubt therefore that the Grey Friars occupied this site.
(see illustration card). (9-10)
The Franciscan Friary at Stamford was established before 1230. It was supressed in 1534, and surrendered in 1538. (11)
The Gateway is as described by Authority 7. (12)
White Friar's (sic) Gateway no longer appears to be listed. (13) |